Child Care News
Hornsby community preschools campaign to freeze rising rental rates
The Daily Telegraph - Jake McCallum, Hornsby Advocate - August 21, 2019Early childhood educators are pleading with Hornsby Council to renegotiate rent for select community preschools across the shire are calling on councillors to freeze current rental rates “in order to ensure the future of these preschools”. Cherrybrook Community Preschool director ...
Early childhood education training centre to open February in old Tin Hut
The Maitland Mercury - Donna Sharpe - August 21, 2019The Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle is expanding its education network, with the launch of St Nicholas Pathways in Maitland - a specialised training centre for those looking to work in child care. Early next year the diocese will open a Pathways training centre in the former Maitland ...
Local early childhood educators collaborate with Fijian teachers
Victor Harbor Times - Jack Manning - August 21, 2019The South Coast is currently hosting some very special guests within the early childhood care community. A group of six Fijian kindergarten teachers are currently working at the Victor Harbor Childcare and Education Centre with a group of TAFESA Lecturers. They join local educators...
How to carry out market analysis for a child-care business?
Best in Au - Rebecca Hutchison - August 21, 2019Kids community college has now become vital as the demand for education is growing day by day. With the increasing awareness between parents and no lack of financial resources, they have now become dependent on third party childcare services. The demand for quality childcare...
Families feel squeeze as healthcare, education costs outpace inflation
The Sydney Morning Herald - Shane Wright - August 20, 2019Working families are being squeezed as the cost of essential goods and services including hospital visits, property rates and education climbs by twice the rate of inflation, prompting calls for stronger competition in government-dominated sectors... Childcare costs have fallen 2.7 per cent since June 2017
Talking Point: Struggle for qualified childcare staff bound to hurt families
The Mercury - Ros Cornish - August 20, 2019For some time, education and care, or childcare, have been at the forefront of government policy debate. The debate focused on workforce participation, encouraging women to return to or enter the workforce, as opposed to educating for our youngest citizens. The bottom line is...
State set for three-year-old kinder
Shepp News - Madeleine Caccianiga - August 19, 2019The biggest ever reform of early childhood education is just around the corner with parents signing their children up for three-year-old kinder. As an Australian first, every Victorian child will be able to start kindergarten from the age of three, with families in the shires of Strathbogie and...
Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority report shows which Tasmanian child care providers meet national standards
The Mercury - Jessica Howard - August 19, 2019More than 50 Tasmanian child care centres are failing to meet all the national standards for quality care seven years after the ratings were introduced. Published by the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority, the National Quality Framework snapshot provides...
Place for young and old
The West Australian - Sandra Argese - August 19, 2019Multiplex has commenced construction on Oryx Communities’ multi-generational seniors’ precinct, The Queenslea in Claremont. An onsite inter-generational childcare facility for more than 100 children, who will have the opportunity to interact, engage and learn from the senior residents...
New childcare centre planned for Hallett Cove Shopping Centre
The Advertiser (Adelaide Now) - Ashleigh Pisani, The Messenger - August 19, 2019A new childcare centre could be built at the Hallett Cove Shopping Centre. Makris Group, which owns the shopping complex, has lodged plans with Marion Council for a childcare centre catering for up to 86 children. It would require extending the centre by about 500sq m...
G8 aiming to bridge the million word gap with reading focus during Book Week
The Sector - Freya Lucas - August 19, 2019n acknowledgement of Children’s Book Week, which commenced 17 August, G8 Education wants to reinforce the message that literacy learning begins with children having access to books, discovering words through play and most important of all being read to and with...
G8 alumnus Chris Scott to lead second ASX childcare biz
The Courier Mail - Alister Thomson, Kathleen Skene and Quentin Tod – August 19, 2019The man who built listed Gold Coast juggernaut G8 Education into the nation’s largest childcare company has taken the reins of another one. Former G8 CEO Chris Scott was yesterday appointed managing director of dual ASX and NZX-listed Evolve Education, of which he is also the largest shareholder...
Government shuts down more than 70 childcare centres in Victoria
Herald Sun - Alex White - August 18, 2019Victorian families are unwittingly putting their children in unsafe childcare situations with authorities investigating scores of facilities over safety concerns and understaffing, with one facility shut down every week. Among the shocking cases of forced closures was Future Kids Family Day Care...
Catholic Church opens not-for-profit childcare centres
The Daily Telegraph - Jack Morphet, The Sunday Telegraph - August 18, 2019The Catholic Church will open a network of not-for-profit childcare centres that could cut fees by more than half in a major shake-up to Sydney daycare. Fees for the centres, to be based at existing Catholic schools or on church grounds, would only be charged to cover running costs...
Touch deficit crisis: Bans on touching harmful to health
The Courier Mail - Jackie Sinnerton, August 18, 2019No holding hands in the playground, no kissing your own kids on the lips, no pecks for cuddly babies in childcare, no handshakes just knuckle bumps – these are just some of the trends pushing basic human touch out of life in 2019. The lack of social touch is being fuelled by rising numbers of...
